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Things Fall Apart (The African Trilogy, #1)

Chinua Achebe

Start date: December 6, 2021

Finish date: December 31, 2021

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Things Fall Apart (The African Trilogy, #1) by Chinua Achebe
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Nov 26, 2017 Valyssia Leigh rated it did not like it

Shelves: format-audio, first-in-series, classics, literature, cultural-africa, protagonist-male, published-decade-1950s, author-male, book-club-boxall-1001, audible

Tyrants attract greater tyrants. It's impossible for me to care about a bunch of self-aggrandizing assholes who sell their daughters and beat their wives. ...more

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Sep 18, 2015 Kira Simion rated it liked it

Reading this because I bought it for my younger sister.

(Edit: spoilers removed:)

3/5 meh stars.

Am I just an idiot who doesn't get colonialism? Probably. Am I someone who picked this up thinking it could be informative? Yes. Am I someone who expected maybe just maybe a little bit more? I think you see where this is going.

The characters were (if they're real, I do so apologize ever so slightly) underdeveloped but, I stuck through and then it ended.

The "colonialism" and evangelism did not start un ...more

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